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Pitchfork has announced the lineup for its annual music festival in Chicago, which is now in its tenth year. Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, and Chance The Rapper will serve as the headliners for each of the three days. The rest of the lineup consists of some pretty big-name acts, including Future Islands, Chvrches, the New Pornographers, Ru… More »

Deafheaven made my favorite album of 2013, and whenever they announce the release of a follow-up, that album will almost definitely top my list of that year's most anticipated. I don't expect a new album anytime soon, and I don't know what to expect of a Deafheaven new album, period, but I'm definitely encouraged… More »

This past weekend, Pitchfork Festival went down in Chicago, and it included a great deal of excellent acts. We sent our photographer Max Herman to capture some behind-the-scenes portraits of artists around the festival. Above you'll find photos of DIIV, Deafheaven, Giorgio Moroder, and more. More »

Our pals at Pitchfork have just announced the lineup for their ninth annual Pitchfork Music Festival, and as you might expect, it's a doozy. The festival will span three nights, Friday, July 18 through Sunday, July 20, and be held at Chicago's Union Park. The headliners for the three respective nights are Beck, Neutral Milk… More »

This past weekend, Chicago's Union Park played host to Pitchfork Music Festival. The two-and-a-half-day event was packed tight with performances from the indiesphere's current marquee artists and its icons. But it wasn't just music -- there was also a large fair offering crafts, handmade wares, and records; a mini-festival of print posters (a lust item… More »

Pitchfork Music Festival returned to Chicago's Union Park over the weekend, hosting dozens of performances from up-and-coming indie, hip-hop, and electronic artists, as well as headline sets from big names like Björk, Belle & Sebastian, and R. Kelly. Lady Gaga was there too (again!). We posted videos of Joanna Newsom debuting a… More »

If you've ever been to Pitchfork Festival you'll know that the Blue Stage is usually the best for seeing more intimate performances. It's tucked away a bit, smaller than the Red or Green stage, and is perfect for a band like Low. During their set yesterday, the band performed a cover of Rihanna's "Stay," telling… More »

Folks attending Pitchfork Festival this weekend (including Claire and Liz on our end) got a nice surprise from Joanna Newsom's set. As you can see from the fan videos below, Newsom played some new songs. One (played on harp) is still untitled, while the others are the previously performed "Look And Despair" and "More »

Sunday’s lineup at Pitchfork opened with the promise of two “secret” guest spots – one that happened, one that didn’t – and an extremely anticipated sets from festival closers Vampire Weekend and Beach House. Read the recap below and check out photos from Carmelo Espanola up top (Friday’s recap here, Saturday here). More »

At ginormous festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, it's pretty tough to craft a narrative -- when there's something like 200 bands playing over a weekend, it's next to impossible to really sew a singular thread through the weekend's performances. Pitchfork Music Festival is much smaller -- 45 bands in three days -- so, it's a… More »

Friday's first day of Pitchfork Festival wasted no time getting into it, where many festival entrants walked in to the fully-wrought hypnotic swirl of Lower Dens, a set that eventually gave way to the raucous appearance of the ASAP Mob, all before dinner time. Once again, one of the country's most manageable, well-paced festivals hit… More »

The Pitchfork Music Festival announced the first chunk of its lineup in February, and it featured names like Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Hot Chip. And just as it always does, Pitchfork announced the rest of the lineup in a couple of installments, and now they've got the complete finished… More »

Today, my former employers over at Pitchfork announced the initial lineup for this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival, which comes to Chicago's Union Park 7/13-15. Every year, Pitchfork announces all the bands at the festival in a few different installments, so this isn't the complete lineup, but here's who the festival has lined u… More »

Pitchfork Fest's final day was a scorcher. We're still recovering, but our tireless photog Graeme Flegenheimer braved the heat to deliver pics of Ariel Pink, Baths, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, How To Dress Well, Kurt Vile, Kylesa, Shabazz Palaces, Superchunk, TV On The Radio, Twin Sister, and Yuck. Sorry, no OFWGKTA. Check out the scene… More »

Pitchfork Fest Friday inspired thoughts about the intimate and situational appeal of much of today's crop of independent artists, and the challenges inherent to translating that allure in sunny festival climes. Fittingly, Saturday's most successful performers were those that were malleable enough to play to the festival, not in spite of it -- or… More »

The beautiful thing about a festival like Pitchfork is the genre-spanning curating: The principal principle is a commitment to independent-minded music, and from that viewpoint Pitchfork succeeds in booking the year's best lineup for those whose RSS feeds are dominated by MP3 blogs and Google searches most frequently include the term ".rar". The difficulty come… More »

The Pitchfork Music Festival's franchising: In addition to the usual July event in Chicago, there's now a second Parisian version of the festival taking place in October. Since his moniker's French, Justin Vernon's helping curate. So far Bon Iver's also confirmed to play, along with Jens Lekman, Wild Beasts, Kathleen Edwards, Cut Copy, and Pantha… More »

The lineup for the 2011 edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival's been announced and it features bands Pitchfork likes. So far 16 have been announced. See how many you can guess without peeking. Hint, there's one metal band and more than one rap band so far. Also, Travis Morrison has obviously gotten over the Travistan… More »

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Jay Z bought the Swedish company Aspiro's streaming music service Tidal less than a month ago, but that didn't stop him from rolling out his rebranded product today with lots of fanfare from his famous friends. Rumors before the 5PM livestream suggested that Jay's newfangled Tidal would be launched with exclusive… More »

As his band traveled through a lightning storm somewhere in the American Midwest, Ariel "Pink" Rosenberg yelled at me over the telephone. It was April 2005, and I was holed up in the spare bedroom of a rented house in York, PA, repeatedly posing pre-prepared interview questions in order to be heard over the noise… More »

Jay Z is not playing with his big rollout of the streaming service Tidal. After many big stars tweeted their support last night, those same stars have shown up in a new 30-second spot for the service's big relaunch today. In the ad, we see a collection of luminaries -- Jay, Kanye West,… More »

Jay Z wants you to know that Tidal, the Scandinavian high-fidelity streaming service that he bought earlier this month, is a big deal. So he didn't just get some of music's biggest stars to tweet about the service's big relaunch, which is happening today. He got them all to change their social media… More »

Burger Records held their fourth annual Burgerama festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana this past weekend. The two-day fest featured appearances from bands like Together PANGEA, Fidlar, La Luz, Gang Of Four, Public Access T.V. and many, many more. Ty Segall and Weezer were the headliners, and Rivers Cuomo's dad Frank Cuomo made… More »